#RightsInAction

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 week ago

Cover of Rights and Realisations report - it has someone in a medical scrubs speaking to two people, one of them is in a wheelchair. Behind them are question marks and twisty arrows to represent uncertainty and difficulties accessing health and social care.

Disabled people and carers in the asylum system are being denied safety, dignity and compassion because they can’t get the health care they need. That's the finding of new #RightsInAction research published today.
www.povertyalliance.org/news-new-rep...

Give Them Time

@givetimescot.bsky.social

6 months ago

#ChildrensRights #UNCRC #ChildAdvocacy #PolicyInPractice #GiveThemTime #GIRFEC #SHANARRI #ListenToChildren #RightsInAction

Give Them Time

@givetimescot.bsky.social

6 months ago

#ChildrensRights #UNCRC #RightToBeHeard #EvolvingCapacity #Under12Voices #Scotland #GIRFEC #ListenToAllChildren #SocialJustice #DemocracyForAll #FamilyVoices #RightsInAction #ScottishParents #SelectiveDemocracy #PolicyVsPractice #RightsInPractice #AccountabilityMatters #ParentsAsAdvocates

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

7 months ago

Ishmail and Sekou - rights in action community researchers. They're sitting in a radio studio with a microphone in front of them.

🎧 New podcast! Community researchers Sekou and Ishmail have lived experience of the asylum system. They talk with On the Margins about their advocacy work, participatory action research and the recently published #RightsInAction Learning Report.
onthemargins.org.uk/podcasts/

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

8 months ago

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📆 Thu 17 July, 10am – 12:30pm
Get inspired for #ChallengePoverty Week! This free online session will look at how we can use our human rights as a tool to drive change. #RightsInAction #WeDemandBetter
👇 Register here! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

8 months ago

The blue Challenge Poverty Week logo on a neon pink background.

📆 Thu 17 July, 10am – 12:30pm
Get inspired for #ChallengePoverty Week! In this free online session we'll look at how we can use our human rights as a tool to drive change. #RightsInAction #WeDemandBetter
👇 Register here! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

9 months ago

📖 Weekend reading!
Six national campaign organisations. Six months. A human rights approach to tackling poverty. Our Lydia Murphy blogs about how they worked together to put #RightsInAction.
www.povertyalliance.org/blog-new-rig...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

10 months ago

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Six national campaigning organisations worked with our Lydia Murphy through #RightsInAction to build and strengthen human rights-based approaches to their work.
Find out what happened in her great blog.
www.povertyalliance.org/blog-new-rig...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

11 months ago

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Lydia Murphy of the Poverty Alliance

Six national campaigning organisations worked with our #RightsInAction project to build and strengthen human rights-based approaches to their work. What happened? Find out here.
www.povertyalliance.org/blog-new-rig...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

11 months ago

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Lydia Murphy of the Poverty Alliance

Six national campaigning organisations worked with our Lydia Murphy through #RightsInAction to build and strengthen human rights-based approaches to their work. What happened? Find out in her blog!
www.povertyalliance.org/blog-new-rig...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

11 months ago

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Our #RightsInAction project brought together six national campaigning organisations to build their capacity to and deepen their practice of taking a human rights-based approach. What happened? Find out in this blog by our Lydia Murphy.
www.povertyalliance.org/blog-new-rig...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

We've published our new report on supporting #HumanRights defenders in rural #Scotland! In this great new blog our #RightsInAction development officer Lydia Murphy explains how the project worked, and how people benefited from it.
www.povertyalliance.org/blog-support...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

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📣 Today! 12-1pm
Come and hear how six organisations from rural #Scotland worked with #RightsInAction to become stronger #HumanRights defenders. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

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📣 Tomorrow! 📆 Wed 5 Mar - 12-1pm
Come and hear how 6 different organisations from rural #Scotland worked with #RightsInAction to become stronger #HumanRights defenders. Reserve your place for our online report launch.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

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📆 Wed 5 Mar - 12-1pm
Come and hear how six organisations from rural #Scotland worked with #RightsInAction to become stronger #HumanRights defenders. Reserve your place for our online report launch.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

A cartoon of hands being raised in the air carrying placards, one of them says Rights in Action! povertyalliance.org/rights-in-action Poverty Alliance logo

📆 Wed 5 Mar - 12-1pm
Come and hear how six organisations from rural #Scotland worked with #RightsInAction to become stronger #HumanRights defenders. Reserve your place for our online report launch.
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MNIi...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

We're very sorry to say that today's #RightsInAction webinar has had to be postponed due to illness. We'll be in touch again to organise a new time and date!

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

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🗓️ Tomorrow Tue 11 Feb: 12noon
Learn about rural human rights defenders! Our #RightsInAction webinar will launch a new report on how communities use human rights as a tool to tackle poverty.
👉 Reserve your place now!
us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mcsk...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

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🗓️ Tue 11 Feb: 12noon
Learn about rural human rights defenders! Our #RightsInAction webinar will launch their report on how communities are learning to use human rights as a tool to tackle poverty.
👉 Reserve your place here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

📰 Weekend reading.
People experiencing poverty in Scotland experience #humanrights infringements regularly and face significant barriers to realising their everyday human rights. This #RightsInAction briefing highlights some of the issue they face.
https://www.povertyalliance.org/briefing-barriers…

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

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🗓️ Tue 11 Feb: 12noon
Learn about rural human rights defenders! Our #RightsInAction project is hosting an exciting webinar to launch their report on how communities are learning to use human rights as a tool to tackle poverty.
👉 Reserve your place here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_M…

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

Poverty Alliance Rights in Action development officer Lydia Murphy

#HumanRights are not just abstract ideals; they are standards for our governments, intended to ensure that every person can live a life of dignity and respect. Our @LydiaMurphyPA explains what stops people in poverty realising rights? #RightsInAction
https://buff.ly/3Bi6BSg

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

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It's simply wrong - despite our great wealth - so many people in Scotland suffer discrimination and social exclusion because of poverty. But communities are taking a stand, and our #RightsInAction project works with them to add human rights to their collective power.
https://buff.ly/4fQRBZO

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

Blog: What stops people in poverty realising their human rights? - The Poverty Alliance Lydia Murphy, Development Officer, The Poverty Alliance Click here to read the briefing Human rights are not just abstract ideals; they are standards for our governments, intended to ensure that…

What stops people in poverty from exercising their human rights? A great blog from our #RightsInAction development officer Lydia Murphy.

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

People want a just Scotland where everyone's right to a safe, warm, affordable, decent home is met. This new #RightsInAction report withh @Roma_Voice shows how people in Govanhill's Roma communities are being denied that right.
https://buff.ly/4gj7Xes

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

Our #RightsInAction project gives people in communities across Scotland the tools to use their #HumanRights to stand against the injustice of poverty. For #HumanRightsDay, our Lydia Murphy outlines what we've learned so far.
https://buff.ly/3Bi6BSg

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

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📚 Weekend reading. Yesterday we issued a special #RightsInAction newsletter in preparation for #HumanRIghtsDay on 10 December. New blogs, briefings, and a film.

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

Blog: What stops people in poverty realising their human rights? - The Poverty Alliance Lydia Murphy, Development Officer, The Poverty Alliance Click here to read the briefing Human rights are not just abstract ideals; they are standards for our governments, intended to ensure that…

What stops people in poverty realising human rights that are meant to be there for all of us? In the run up to #HumanRights Day, our @LydiaMurphyPA blogs about what people have told us in a new #RightsInAction briefing.

Isla McIntosh (She/They)

@islamc.bsky.social

1 year ago

Amazing panel @povertyalliance.org #RightsInAction webinar sharing what #Empowerment looks like - power of collective, peer support, knowing your rights to recognise when they're being breached & where to go for redress

The Poverty Alliance

@povertyalliance.org

1 year ago

A cartoon showing people holding placards saying Every Human Has Rights

🗓️Tue 3 Dec🕛12-1pm
In our fourth #RightsInAction lunchtime webinar, our speakers will talk about the principle of empowerment, what it means in their communities or work and what it means for the anti-poverty movement more broadly.
👇Join us!
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